Fractional Packing of T-Joins

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Barahona

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Given a graph with nonnegative capacities on its edges, it is well known that the capacity of a minimum T-cut is equal to the value of a maximum fractional packing of T-joins. The Padberg--Rao algorithm finds a minimum capacity T-cut, but it does not produce a T-join packing. We present a polynomial combinatorial algorithm for finding an optimal T-join packing.